KATARA

Katara

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KATARA

Lurssen

2010

Top Speed 20 kn

Cruise Speed 15 kn

Beam 19.5 m

Guests 34

Crew 95

Known as Project Crystal by her builder, this 124 metre yacht’s name was unveiled as Katara upon her launch. Katara, hull number 13656, was built by the Lürssen shipyard in Bremen and spent her first full season in the Caribbean. It is speculated that her interior is by the late Alberto Pinto. She has one helipad and carries both her tenders and her SOLAS rescue boats in davits port and starboard. She flies a Qatari flag and her home port is Doha, which means her name is more likely a translation of the word for “celebration” than a reference to the female waterbender in the film, Avatar, although that works, too. She likely belongs to the new young emir.

Overview

Name: KATARA
Construction Codename: CRYSTAL
Yacht Type: Motor Yacht
Yacht Subtype: Displacement
Builder: Lurssen
Naval Architect: Lurssen
Exterior Designer: Espen Oeino
Interior Designer: Alberto Pinto

Few men who come to the islands leave them; they grow grey where they alighted; the palm shades and the trade-wind fans them till they die, perhaps cherishing to the last the fancy of a visit home, which is rarely made, more rarely enjoyed, and yet more rarely repeated.

No part of the world exerts the same attractive power upon the visitor, and the task before me is to communicate to fireside travellers some sense of its seduction.

The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sunrise, the first South Sea island, are memories apart and touched a virginity of sense.